Story Time 252 – The commando and the buried POW camp

Story Time 252 – The commando and the buried POW camp

Published: December 29, 2025

Duration: 1:22:54

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, we stumble by many coincidences onto the story of Australian Test cricket's WWII commando, and his connection to a Japanese POW camp, in a poignant week for Geoff to link these things together. If you're interested, look up the poetry of Chris Wallace-Crabbe.


Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:

5.48 - Geoff Price

3.39 - Lee Geldard

7.06 - Chris Byrne

1.34 - Amelia Vine


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